Indiewire as well as French cine blogs have made some wishes about Skylab being selected for Cannes 2011:

”Skylab,” directed by Julie Delpy (France) “Looking for Jimmy,” “2 Days in Paris,” “The Countess,” and ow…“Skylab.” The notoriously in-control Julie Delpy is back in he director’s chair with a French comedy that uses the 1979 crashing of the fallen-out-of-orbit NASA space station Skylab to rame the story of an eccentric family. Delpy has written and stars with Noémie Lvovsky and Eric Elmosnino (“Gainsbourg,” “Father of My Children”) in what looks like a new tonal direction. Here’s hoping it’s completed and polished enough to make it onto this year’s lineup. [Bryce J. Renninger]

Cannes Festival will be held this year from the 11th to the 22nd of May - the official list should be announced in less than 10 days...

In an interview he gave to PlayBill.com, he mentions an interesting detail about his first encounter with Julie Delpy:

In rehearsing this, how did you get that family feeling going? I kept thinking, "That's a real family there. I understand that." It just really communicated to me. How do you, as actors, rehearse that?EH: I dunno. That's just luck of the draw. I remember the first day I met Julie Delpy [his romantic co-star in 1995's "Before Sunrise" and 2004's "Before Sunset"], I couldn't stand her, but the first day I acted with her, I thought, "I'm going to know this woman my whole life." Sometimes you can play well with others, sometimes you can't — and it's not entirely up to you. It's a real challenge when you’re putting together a team of people who have to play together.